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Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesperson for Haiti’s ºÃÉ«tv Police, told The Associated Press that the policemen were inside an armored vehicle that became stuck in a ditch dug by gangs and were killed as they tried to escape.

In a video posted on social media, gang members gloated over boots, automatic weapons, bulletproof vests and other items they seized from police during the attack. They also posted gruesome videos of the officers killed.

The killings come less than a month after three other police officers and an informant , which gangs have repeatedly attacked. A fourth officer also remains missing in that case.

Some 1,520 people were reported killed and another 600 injured across Haiti from April to the end of June, with 24% of them injured or killed by gangs, according to the latest U.N. report.

Haitian police are working with Kenyan officers leading to quell gang violence. The multinational force was supposed to be on the ground with more than 2,500 uniformed personnel but has less than 1,000, said Ulrika Richardson, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Haiti.

Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday, she described the situation on the ground as “alarming and urgent,� calling it “very strikingly horrific� in Port-au-Prince, where she lived and worked.

Richardson said 1.3 million people have been , 2 million people are facing , and two out of three hospitals in the capital are not functioning.

She also noted that there’s a lack of political will at many different levels and a lack of money. As an example, she said, the $900 million humanitarian response plan for Haiti, which is only 9% funded, is “the lowest level of funding for any response plan in the world.�

Richardson warned that Haiti’s gangs have now plunged into regional organized crime including trafficking in drugs, arms and people.

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Associated Press press reporter Edith M. Lederer at the U.N. contributed.

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